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The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2018, with early voting taking place in some states in the weeks before. Elections were held to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states. Non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited U.S. territories were also elected. The election for a non-voting delegate from the Northern Mariana Islands has been postponed until Tuesday, November 13, 2018, due to the impact of Typhoon Yutu.

The 2018 United States elections were held in the United States on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. These midterm elections took place in the middle of Republican President Donald Trump's term. 35 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate and all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives were contested. 39 state and territorial governorships, as well as numerous other state and local elections, were also contested. In the elections, the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives and made gains at the state level, while the Republican Party expanded its majority in the Senate.

The United States Presidential Election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, despite losing the popular vote. Trump took office as the 45th President, and Pence as the 48th Vice President, on January 20, 2017. Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama was ineligible to serve a third term due to the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. Concurrent with the presidential election, Senate, House, and many gubernatorial and state and local elections were also held on November 8.

The elections to the United States Senate were held on November 6, 2018. 33 of the 100 seats were contested in regular elections and two seats in special elections. The winners of the 33 regular elections will serve six-year terms from January 3, 2019, to January 3, 2025. Democrats had 26 seats up for election, including the seats of two independents who caucus with them. Republicans had nine seats up for election. The seats up for regular election in 2018 were last up in 2012; in addition, special elections were scheduled due to vacancies in Minnesota and Mississippi.

The next Victorian state election will be held on Saturday 24 November 2018 to elect the 59th Parliament of Victoria, including all 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 40 in the Legislative Council. The first-term incumbent Labor government, is led by Premier Daniel Andrews, while the current opposition is the Liberal/National Coalition, led by Opposition Leader Matthew Guy.

The 2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a United States Senator from Mississippi. The election was held to fill the seat vacated by Senator Thad Cochran when he resigned from the Senate, effective April 1, 2018, due to health concerns. Republican Governor Phil Bryant appointed Cindy Hyde-Smith to fill the vacancy created by Cochran's resignation. Hyde-Smith is seeking election to serve the balance of Cochran's term, which expires in January 2021.

The 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, being held on 30 November and 1 December 2018 in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is the 13th meeting of Group of Twenty (G20). It is the first G20 summit to be hosted in South America.

The “Tulsa Race Riot” or "The Bombing of Black Wall Street", sometimes referred to as the Tulsa massacre, Tulsa pogrom, or Tulsa race riot of 1921, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when a white mob attacked residents and businesses of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the history of the United States. The attack, carried out on the ground and by air, destroyed more than 35 blocks of the district, at the time the wealthiest black community in the U.S.

Elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held on 28 November 2018 to elect members of the 230 constituencies in Madhya Pradesh. It is believed that the election will be a direct political battle between the BJP and the INC. While the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government will try to win for consecutive 4th term, the INC will fight for winning the state after 2003. It is also a major battle between senior Congress leader Arun Yadav and the incumbent Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan as they face off each other in Budhni.

The United States presidential election of 2020, scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020, will be the 59th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will either elect a new president and vice president through the electoral college or reelect the incumbents. The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses are likely to be held during the first six months of 2020. This nominating process is also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots selecting a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who then in turn elect their party's presidential nominee.

The Viacrucis del Migrante also known as Central American migrant caravan, organized by Pueblo Sin Fronteras are annual pilgrimage caravans of mostly Central American migrants travelling from the Guatemala–Mexico border into Mexico and/or toward the Mexico–United States border. Viacrucis caravans have historically been organized by the migrants themselves, with accompaniment by human rights defenders for protection from police abuse and criminal attacks, and to draw attention to the struggles and rights of all displaced peoples, including those of asylum-seekers. It has been supported by a cross-border coalition of social justice activists, community organizers, faith-based groups, and human rights advocates known as Pueblo Sin Fronteras, setting off during Holy Week since 2010.

Elections to the United States Senate will be held on November 3, 2020 with the 33 Class 2 seats of the Senate being contested in regular elections. The winners will serve six-year terms from January 3, 2021, until January 3, 2027. Additionally, there will be a special election in Arizona to fill the seat of John McCain.

The United States presidential election of 2012 was the 57th quadrennial American presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. The Democratic nominee, President Barack Obama, and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, were elected to a second term. They defeated the Republican ticket of former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.